Don't Wake Me At Doyles. A Memoir

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 406 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Remarkable Story Of An Irish Lassin The 1920s

Publishers Description: When seventy-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer, she left her husband of fifty years and started writing her memoirs. Born 'chronically ugly and as cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura lived much of her adult life in England, where she raised nine children and fought to keep together a family ravaged by poverty and alcohol. The voice of a silent generation of an immigrant-Irish underclass, Maura Murphy's tough and remarkable life is a compellingly written account of struggle and survival like no other. With all the immediacy and impact of Frank McCourt's prize-winning ANGELA'S ASHES, Maura's voice is feisty, funny and fearless. And she needed to be all those things to survive an extraordinary series of privations and abuses. Her story is compelling and upbeat despite everything.

ISBN: 9780755313242